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Authorities arrested a suspect in a Georgia murder on Friday in West Palm Beach.

The suspect, Tennyson Tyrone Zeigler, was arrested without incident, said Lt. Chuck Reed of the West Palm Beach Police Department.

Zeigler, 29, is a suspect in a murder in Savannah. Reed said. William F. Valentine, 68, was stabbed to death July 22 in his downtown Savannah apartment. Valentine was stabbed 35 times and his paycheck was stolen, police said.

DNA and other evidence found at the scene led detectives from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department to the suspect in West Palm Beach.

The suspect was arrested at 613 Executive Center Drive, where he may have been staying with relatives, Reed said.

SOUTH FLORIDA

Derailment in Lauderdale delays Tri-Rail service

A Tri-Rail work train derailed north of the Fort Lauderdale airport station Friday morning, halting southbound and northbound commuter trains for one hour and 37 minutes.

The CSX-operated train was carrying ballast, a type of rock poured between the rails to provide support, when one car derailed at 10:56 a.m., Tri-Rail spokeswoman Bonnie Arnold said.

No injuries were reported.

Tri-Rail suspended service for today, due to Hurricane Wilma, until further notice.

Second student alleges molestation by teacher

Another student came forward with sexual molestation allegations against a middle school teacher arrested this week on sexual battery charges, the Broward Sheriff's Office said Friday.

The teen told detectives that on the last day of school last semester, Valdez, 29, exposed himself inside his geography classroom, Leljedal said. After school, the two met in a nearby parking lot, then Valdez drove them to his Deerfield Beach home and molested the teen, Leljedal said.

Valdez, who was being held without bail Friday in Broward County's Main Jail, now faces additional charges of exposure of sexual organs, two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation and two counts of sexual battery.

GULF STREAM

Commission fills seat after resignation

The Gulf Stream town commission named Chris Wheeler to the commission Friday.

Wheeler, chairman of the town's architectural review and planning board, was selected to fill the seat left open when Robert Hopkins resigned from the five-member body Oct. 14. Wheeler, a former Gables Residential Trust CEO, has been active in local real estate for more than 20 years.

"On account of his experience with the architectural review and planning board and other knowledge he has of the town, he'd be a good commissioner," Mayor William Koch said when nominating him to the post.

The donation, made through the United Way of Palm Beach County, will allow social service workers to send evacuees for free MRIs, X-rays, ultrasounds and other diagnostic tests at University MRI west of Boynton Beach.

The service is available to any evacuee through the Family Empowerment Coalition, a United Way agency.

For more information or to receive services, evacuees should call Dawn Krupa at 561-253-1361.